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Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
Cultures clash when a trusting young woman marries an American naval officer stationed in Nagasaki. Video
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Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti
Sparkling with virtuosic singing and playful humour, this boisterous comedy pits the miserly Don Pasquale against his nephew Ernesto and Ernesto’s sweetheart, the crafty young Norina Video
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Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
Verdi’s epic opera is also an intimate love story of an Egyptian military hero and a captured Ethiopian princess.
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Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano
Under the shadow of the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror, a poet and a servant-turned-revolutionary compete for the affections of a young aristocrat
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Dream of the Red Chamber by Bright Sheng
One of China’s greatest classical novels, as famous in China as ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is in the West, recounts the love triangle between a young nobleman and two very different women: one his spiritual…
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Pene Pati and Amina Edris: opera stars living The Elixir of Love
Pene Pati is one third of the smash-hit pop opera family group Sol3 Mio. Pene, his brother Amitai and cousin Moses Mackay have taken a break from Sol3 to further their operatic studies. Now he's home… Audio
Success in San Francisco
Former Cantabrian soprano Amina Edris is doing very well at San Francisco Opera. She’s in the second year of the young artist Adler programme and will appear in supporting roles in Verdi’s La Traviata… Audio
Kiwis cast in San Francisco Opera productions
New Zealand opera singers, soprano Amina Edris and tenors Pene and Amitai Pati from Sol3 Mio, have been cast in a number of major roles for San Francisco Opera this year. Audio
Amitai made Adler Fellow
New Zealand Tenor Amitai Pati, who won the 2012 Lexus Song Quest and is one third of Sol3 Mio, is one of four new Adler Fellows joining San Francisco Opera in 2017. He explains the road to the… Audio
Pamela Rosenberg: Opera Leader
Former Intendant of the San Francisco Opera and Berlin Philharmonic talks about her experiences. Audio
David Gockley: San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera's general director talks about their latest season which will be broadcast regularly on Radio NZ Concert. Audio